Hello! Upgrading Marco did fix the issue with the top pane. For the braille panning problem I will report to the brltty and orca mailing lists. Thank a lot for your great work! Sergei. On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 03:10:00PM +0100, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello Sergei, > > On 27/12/2018 12:49, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:> Hello, list. > > I just install Slint on my laptop for everyday use but have a couple of > > issues in Mate. > > First issue is the top panel acess. Whin I just installed Slint, it > > worked just fine. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Tab to go to the top panel. > > But after upgrading my system to the latest packages and changing my > > locale to Russian this combination stops working. Of course I know that > > I just can get rid of the bottom pane and the top pane will become > > accessible, but I wonder, if there is a more elegant solution for this? > I need to know which window manager is in use. > > This command will tell us that: > gsettings get org.mate.session.required-components windowmanager > > The output should be either "marco" or 'compiz' > > You can switch to the other one typing either: > gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components windowmanager 'marco' > or > gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components windowmanager 'compiz' > > compiz can be tweaked, but it's not so easy so I suggest you use marco > for now. > > When using marco, following key bindings work: > <Control><Alt>Tab switch between top panel and desktop > <Shift><Control><Alt>Tab switch between top panel and desktop > > You need to release all keys to switch. > > This is not ideal and in next Slint major update, it will be simpler > as in both compiz and marco you will have by default: > > Cycle between windows <Alt>Tab > Cycle backward between windows <Shift><Alt>Tab > Cycle between panels and the desktop <Control><Alt><Tab> > Cycle backwards between panels and the desktop <Shift><Control><Alt><Tab> > > This update should be available within a week or so, I will post > here and in the Orca and Slint mailing lists when it will be ready > > Meanwhile you can already upgrade to the upcoming marco package > typing these commands: > wget http://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/next/packages/marco-1.18.3-x86_64-1slint.txz > md5sum marco-1.18.3-x86_64-1slint.txz > You should get: > 229b1e2a810fd07f18fa2148274d1ac5 marco-1.18.3-x86_64-1slint.txz > Then become root with su and type: > upgradepkg marco-1.18.3-x86_64-1slint.txz > > Just be aware that at next "slapt-get --upgrade you will be proposed > to go back to the previous version as this one is not yet officially > released. > > > Another issue is that Braille panning does not seems to work in > > graphical mode on both my machines. I am using Focus 40 blue (4th gen) > > Braille display. In console with Brltty everything works well, but in > > Mate I can see the line focus is on, but if the text does not fit the > > display, I am not able to pan through it. This problem persists through > > all the apps I use. I remember that in the past I did not have this > > issue. > > I am sorry, I can't help you there as I don't know Braille at all > and thus have never used a Braille device. > > Else maybe the next upgrade will help, but that's just wishful thinking. > Anyway brltty will be upgraded to version 5.6. > > I hope someone else can help you. > > Happy holidays and new year everybody. > > Best, > > Didier > Slint project http://slint.fr > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list